can do on the bilateral economic front. >> larry peckar, how is russia emeshed in the economy of the eu and europe more broadly? >> indeed, russia is fully integrated in the global economy, and has close ties into the global economies and so on. but the point is that the current situation is not purely economic. when speaking about just the economy, western countries, european countries, are interested in keeping close ties to russia. in deporting russian gas, and exporting technology, and investing in huge russian potential, but as for the moment, it's not purely an economic situation. since last week, we have rather geo political military situation, and the military aspect prevails on economic. and that is why european leaders changed their minds and their statements become more and more strict and more and more firm against russian invasion into ukraine. >> certainly, as valerri suggests, there's a minimal suggestion to this. but coming back to economics, we kept hearing over the past days how dependent europe is over russian gas, and isn't russia also dependent on european money.